From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 23 22:31:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B0D37B417; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:31:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2O6Twv87174; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 01:29:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 01:29:57 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge To: Mike Meyer Cc: fcash@lug.kamloops.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Submitting new ports Message-ID: <20020324062957.GA72651@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <15517.28913.493320.455658@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15517.28913.493320.455658@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-message-flag: Magic 8-Ball says "Outlook not so good." I'll ask it about Exchange next. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 12:23:45AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: >In the future, you can get better response in general by noting that >there's a patch included with [PATCH] at the start of the >synopsis. Similarly, new ports get quicker treatment if you say New >port - ... so that committers know it's a new port just by >looking at the synopsis. And please put the category/portname on all PRs. I'm not a committer, but I get -ports@ and it helps to determine whether I have a reason to read a particular PR. E.g., is it about one of my ports? -- AlanE "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - HST To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message